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When I try to launch Signal through the launcher on Linux with the following

/usr/bin/chromium-browser --profile-directory=Default --app-id=bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk

It crashes, nothing happens. This is what the Desktop Application link calls. But when I click LAUNCH APP in the web store, it works.

Any idea of how the web store's LAUNCH APP link works or what can be responsible. I don't see any errors either way in the developer's console.

Evan Carroll
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  • I know it is frustrating but hard to give you advice without an error message. As the application works my guess is a problem with one of the options you have, either a problem with the Default directory or app-id. Can you just run chromium-browser without options and then test one a t a time. – Panther Apr 30 '17 at 18:22
  • @bodhi.zazen I found the issue, and self-answered. – Evan Carroll Apr 30 '17 at 18:51

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The issue here turned out to be 

CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--incognito"

I had Chromium set to open up in incognito mode in /etc/chromium-browser/default as per these instructions. That stops the application from attaching to the current session. It produces this in STDERR..

/usr/bin/chromium-browser --profile-directory=Default --app-id=bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk
Using PPAPI flash.
--incognito --ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=

Created new window in existing browser session.

But no further errors. No window is created in my existing browser session.

Bug filed in Github issue tracker here

Evan Carroll
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